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by parineum 4mo ago
> We know they do because before the government took over the job, the nascent medicine industry would sell you literal poison. I'm not arguing against regulation of private industry, I'm arguing against government competing wi
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> Private Equity does not care about the common good, only profits. Go back and read what I wrote. The point of capitalism is to align the profit motive of capitalists with the common good. It's not to give free reign to capitalists
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> The real question is, what is the metric of ‘success’ - improved public health for the entire population at low cost, or bloated returns for pharmaceutical investors? This is a false dichotomy and this kind of zero sum thinking is exac
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Capitalism doesn't serve capitalists. It's built to create an environment where the capitalist, doing what they do best, also serves the community. Monopolies are anti-capitalism, despite it being something that capital strives fo
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This all assumes that the government will do an equal or better job spending money than companies that rely on spending that money well to exist. What will actually happen is that the government department of repurposing drugs will be effic
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most of it?
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Your post implies that these things don't apply outside of the west but I don't see how they don't equally apply everywhere. Also, is it abnormal that if you don't do work you can't eat? That seems like a pretty fun
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> Humans are diverse and should have differences in how they treat others and react. Even though I agree with you, that's not a fact and, if a bunch of people are happy all being exactly the same, that's great for them. You can
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> I don't think Peter Higgs could have self funded CERN. I don't think a thousand Peter Higgs could have Higgs didn't use the LHC to write the paper which won him the Nobel prize. Additionally, I think it's worth con
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> - Games. This is really getting better and better each year...but I regularly play Microsoft Flight Simulator and haven't even tried to get that running in Linux yet (anyone have good experiences getting this working?) It's a
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> identifies five ways in which the phrase has been used Which has nothing to do with the meaning of the words in the phrase for a commonly misused phrase.
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Batteries and solar panels in space/mars/moon.
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> It's also an exception that proves the rule That phrase doesn't refer to anomalies, it refers to signs that says "no parking between 5-10pm". It implies the rule that parking is allowed otherwise.
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by parineum 5mo ago
You could add a short drive shaft behind the springs to put the motor on the car body. That'd give you some additional advantage of moving much of the brake weight off of the wheel as well.
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Why can't they flag everything?
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Cheap energy is what drives innovation. You'd never have cheap solar if we didn't have cheap coal first. The problems of today will be solved by more energy consumption (desalinization or carbon capture, for example), not less. In
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> There are still organic ones available, which are less dangerous. "Organic" as in certified 'Organic' or as in the class of molecules? If the former then I'd love to see the classification requirements that mak
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by parineum 5mo ago
Ripping a DVD is and was not a federal crime. The DMCA had carve outs for personal use and DeCSS was free speech (as argued and won by the EFF). Using DeCSS to rip your own dvd was never illegal.
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A worldview built on reading comments from news aggregators.
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They could but they don't. That's pretty much the whole job. You can also appeal decisions to a more reasonable party if you draw RobotJudge3000 for your trial
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Trump got evangelicals to vote for him because he promised to appoint supreme court justices who would overturn roe. Evangelicals, as a group, no longer have a cohesive political goal. They don't have influence because the collective i
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by parineum 5mo ago
Who is "everyone involved"? Iran and the Obama administration? What was bombed in that secret mountain base? Why keep it a secret?
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The question here is about markets though. Not everyone wants x but if the vast majority of people want y, x is going to be niche and expensive. You don't think the commercials of Google's AI photo features aren't going to ha
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Now you're confusing maga with evangelicals which are very different parts of the party. Evangelicals have largely lost influence in a post Roe world. Trump had to cater to them in his first term but, since he's taken over the par
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> We had a diplomatic agreement that worked, nuked it for no gain, and now there isn’t a viable way to influence Iran. I see this repeateded a lot but it doesn't follow to me that the facility that was bombed in midnight hammer was
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> Most people are ok with slower. An AI that lets you edit a family picture, in say 30 seconds, locally is preferable to one that is instantaneous but requires you to submit that picture to examination/storage/training/sal
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It doesn't really need this much explanation. People take these quotes out of context all the time. Said in a business context, there was no need, at that time, for someone to have a personal computer. There's no business justific
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And the water we take out eventually goes back.
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Capital is just a thing that makes your time more valuable. It's the entire reason capital is valuable.
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> the vast majority of people, lacking meaningful capital, can only secure income by selling their time and labor It's just time and it's the only things humans value. The only way to provide value for another person is to use

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